Word Play
For Lexophiles (Lovers of Words):
A backward poet writes inverse.
A bicycle can’t stand alone; it is two tired.
A boiled egg is hard to beat.
A chicken crossing the road: poultry in motion.
A lot of money is tainted: ‘Taint yours and ‘taint mine.
A will is a dead giveaway.
Acupuncture: a jab well done.
Bakers trade bread recipes on a knead to know basis.
If you don’t pay your exorcist you can get repossessed.
In a democracy it’s your vote that counts; in feudalism, it’s your Count that votes.
Santa’s helpers are subordinate clauses.
Show me a piano falling down a mine shaft and I’ll show you A-flat miner.
The guy who fell onto an upholstery machine was fully recovered.
Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.
When a clock is hungry it goes back four seconds.
Oxymorons:
- Act naturally
- Advanced Basic
- Almost exactly
- Alone together
- Clearly misunderstood
- Definite maybe
- Diet ice cream
- Exact estimate
- Found Missing
- Genuine imitation
- Good grief
- Living dead
- New classic
- “Now, then…”
- Passive aggression
- Peace force
- Plastic glasses
- Pretty ugly
- Resident Alien
- Same difference
- Sanitary landfill
- Silent scream
- Soft rock
- Sweet sorrow
- Synthetic natural gas
- Taped live
- Terribly pleased
- Tight slacks
- Working vacation
